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The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online


We've all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn't the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low

The story highlights a padded laptop bag made by Filson that a super fan now hunts “down everywhere” to snag as many as possible “before everyone figures out how great they are.” It points to Discontinued Beauty, a site whose offerings are old to visitors but new to the site. Among its latest products: an “essential protein restructurizer” by Redkin priced at an eye-popping $169.95. Who cares, suggests one creative director, who tells the Times about a lip pencil the beauty company NARS no longer sells and she has found elsewhere.

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